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Far from being unknown, the presence of the guinea pig in the portrait of three Elizabeth children had been reproduced and remarked upon earlier

Sir, It is hard to believe that the guinea pig in the portrait of three
unknown Elizabethan children (Aug
21) was new to the staff of the National Portrait Gallery, because this
picture has been familiar to students of Elizabethan costume for at least 30
years.

It was reproduced — and the presence of the guinea pig remarked on — in Jane
Ashelford’s widely available and popular visual history of 16th-century
costume in 1983.

Victoria Solt Dennis
Gillingham,

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